Tobacco-smoking device



J. FLAJOLLET.

.TOBACCO SMOKING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 27 ISIS Patented June 29, 1920.

lie/MMI' /M y?? 71 M MZ JEAN `I!"LAITOLIZIEEI, OF LYON, FRANCE.

TOBACCO-SMOKING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

i Patelvfited` J une 29, 11920.

Application led May 27, 1919. Serial No. 300.122.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JEAN FLAJoLLnr, a citizen of the French Republic, of Lyon, France, have invented certain new and useful Tobacco-Smoking Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a tobacco smoking device in the formation of a cigarette without paper, the tobacco being inclosed in a tube of suitable material, such as metal, glass, earthenware, mica, or other impenetrable substance. The tobacco burns at the end of said tube under the thrust of a spring or any elastic device pushing it gradually against the end of said tube as it is being reduced to ash.

By this `arrangement the rigid tube acts as a substitute for the paper of a cigarette and avoids the consequences of use thereof. The device resembles a cigarette or cigarholder of a certain length.

In the annexed drawing r- Figure 1 is a central diametrical section of a simple form of the device.

Figs. 2 to 4 illustrate details of construction.

iFig. 5 illustrates a modification of the device shown in Fig. l.

The model represented in Fig. 1 is composed of a tube a of any suitable material, into which the tobacco composing the cigarette to be smoked is inserted and is automatically pushed and moved toward the open end of said tube by the action of a spiral spring b pressing on the one hand against the back part of the tobacco and on the other hand against the base of the mouth-piece c of any material: amber, wood, etc., which is fixed at the rear end of said tube.

In order to centralize the drawing of the smoke and also to produce a pushing action on the tobacco in a more rectilinear way, the spring has at its frontend a funnel d secured or not secured to the spring b. Further, in order that said funnel may not fall out through the open end of the tube and also that the tobacco may not escape from said tube except as reduced to ashes, the open end comprises an abutment formed either of a crescent-shaped part e (see plan view in Fig. 2), or a series of projections or undulations f as shown in Fig. 3 which may extend around the whole circumference of the tube or only a part thereof. Any other suitable means can also be employed.

If the tobacco is in the form of a cylindrical roll, it is introduced directly into the tube a at the rear end thereof after removal of the mouth-piece c, spring Z) and funnel d, or a supplementary magazine, as shown in Fig. 4, can be used, the said magazine being formed of two halves hinged together which can be opened for the insertion of the tobacco and then closed and inserted in the tube 1r/,or the magazine may be formed of a sheet of mica. Any other means for the insertion of the tobacco may be employed.

The tobacco being lighted like a cigarette, it will be slowly consumed at the orifice of the tube a, owing to the spring I), which pushes it lightly and gradually as it is being transformed into ash, when the latter offers no further resistance and drops out.

The modification illustrated in Fig. 5 differs from the arrangement shown in Fig. 1 in that the tobacco instead of being movable is stationary. In this case the outer tube e' contains an inner tube with end funnel jl. The tobacco is here placed between said funnel and the open end l of the outer tube z' and it burns while subjected to the back thrust ofthe spring le fastened on the oneA hand to the rear end of the tube t' at 2 and on the other hand to a fixed part 761 of the mouthpiece. The tension of the spring gradually withdraws the outer tube to the unfilled position.

The absorption of nicotin can even be avoided by the insertion, in the bottom of the mouth-piece, of a lining h of an absorbent material such as cotton.

g g1 in Fig. 4 represents two hinged semicylindrical plates forming a container, between which plates tobacco may be formed into a filler for insertion into the tube a or z'.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the Unitedl States is y l. A device for smoking tobacco comprising an outer tube open at one end, a detachable mouth-piece closing the other end of said outer tube, a second tube of smaller diameter in said outer tube and extending to said mouth-piece at one end, a funnel n shaped member at the other end thereof, a third tube adapted to contain tobacco and slidable in said outer tube between the inner wall thereof and the outer wall of said second tube, an abutment at the outer end of said third tube, and a spring adapted to draw said third tube into said outer tube funnel-shaped member connected to said as the tobacco is consumed, so as to maintain spring and a hinged container adapted to be the tobacco at the open end of said third inserted in said tube.

tube as it is being consumed. In Witness whereof I have signed this 5 2. A deiioe for smoking tobacco comprisspecification in the presence of two Witnesses. l5

ing a rv straight tube open at one end and adauted to contain tobacco, an abut- JEAN FLAJOLLET ment at said open end, a detachable mouth- Witnesses: piece at the other end of said tube, a spring JEAN GERMAIN,

10 in said tube adjacent said' mouth-piece, a MARIN VAoHoN. 

